Approaches to Theological Ethics : Sources, Traditions, Visions / by Maureen Junker-Kenny.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1 Introduction: The sources of theological ethics
1 The Bible as a source of theological ethics 9
1. Scripture as a creation of the church 11
2. The Bible as the authoritative word of God 15
3. The New Testament as the earliest testimony to God's self-revelation in the person of Jesus 19-

2 The second source: Tradition as norma normans normata
1. Traditionalist views of tradition 29
2. Tradition as a general concept of culture and religion 31
3. How to verify what remains identical in processes of translation and transformation? 33
4. Consequences for the use of tradition as a source of theological ethics 39
3 The third source: Normative accounts of the human person 41
1. Schools of philosophical ethics 42
2. Concepts of self, of the other and of the social framework
3. Linking up with the Christian legacy in the development of European philosophy: The 'inner person' 55
4 The fourth source: The individual human sciences 61
1. Reason, rationality and scientism 61
2. Sciences and technology as social practices and the role of ethics 67
3. Integrating rationality operating in the disciplines with normative theories 72
4. Integration as connecting to overarching questions of reason 77
Part 2 Traditions of theological ethics
5 Varieties of virtue ethics 85
1. Reading early Christian ethics as virtue ethics 86
2. Ecclesial communitarianism as an alternative to Enlightenment individualism (Stanley Hauerwas) 93
3. Virtues as images of attitude (Haltungsbilder) in an ethics of ability (Konnens-Ethik) (Dietmar Mieth) 101
6 Christian worship as a foundation of Christian ethics 109
1. Retracing the origins of Christian ethics 110
2. The event of the eucharist and dimensions of the Body of Christ 116
3. Reconceiving Christian ethics from liturgy - repercussions on its tasks and its standing at the university 121
7 Natural law 127
1. Key factors of natural law in changing philosophical frameworks 128
2. Theological interpretations of natural law, classical and revisionist 130
3. Natural law as part of modern Christian social ethics (Arno Anzenbacher) 136
4. Catholic Social Thought 141
8 Autonomous ethics within a Christian faith perspective149
1. Principled autonomy as a framework for theological ethics
2. Factors from the Christian faith perspective qualifying the autonomy approach 158
3. A comparison of revisionist natural law to autonomous ethics 164
9 Feminist theological ethics 169
1. Feminist ethics from a revisionist natural law approach 169
2. 'Care'as a challenge to'justice' 177
3. Principled autonomy as relational 183
Part 3 Visions
10 Theological ethics as integralist, as praxis-oriented or as discourse-focused 195
1. An ecclesiocentric vision (William Cavanaugh) 195
2. Theological ethics as originating in and returning to praxis (LisaCahill) 204
3. Theological ethics in interaction with three 'publics': University,
societ)^ church (David Tracy) 211